The Media Center can become quite a heavy load to schlep around in your laptop case. Even when it's "naked" it weighs 1.45 kilograms - add a power supply and cable and it weighs in at 1.96 kilograms. These weight values do not take into account FireWire and USB cables.
Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.